This Christmas Eve, GBH takes listeners on a journey through some of the most spectacular and rarely heard holiday music of all time with a legendary radio host – rock programmer Oedipus. Christmas Eve with Oedipus airs on 89.7 FM in Greater Boston and worldwide at www.wgbh.org.
On December 24, Oedipus takes over at 7pm to bring listeners Christmas music they have never heard, rare tracks from rock, hip hop, classical, spoken word, ethereal, and more, concluding with The Nutcracker at midnight.
In 2018, then-mayor Marty Walsh proclaimed December 24th as “Christmas Eve with Oedipus Day” in Boston. Oedipus, who has broadcast live on Christmas Eve for 4 decades, and has hosted an annual Christmas Eve program at GBH since 2015, returns this Christmas Eve to present his unique brand of holiday music.
Beginning at MIT with the first punk rock show in the country, to his career as a DJ and program director at the legendary rock station of Boston, WBCN, Oedipus has been collecting Christmas music for years, but he only decides what to play when Christmas Eve arrives. He prides himself on not playing a single one of the songs that you hear over and over in the malls.
Peace, love and understanding is the theme: music of the season, winter, snow, Hanukkah, and Christmas, beginning at 7pm and running until midnight, when Oedipus will play The Nutcracker in its entirety.
